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Australia’s second-largest telco, Optus, has dipped into the secondary market to double its 3G spectrum holdings in the country’s eight largest cities.

With auctioning of 2.6 GHz in the UK getting pushed further and further back, government and regulators are being urged to sell the 50 MHz central block of TDD spectrum…

The ground-breaking approach of using auction design to determine spectrum packaging seems to be off the agenda in the UK but should be tested in practice in the next few…

A likely Competition Commission investigation, a new threat of legal action and a forthcoming general election means the release of this crucial band – originally planned for 2007 – may…

The Digital Agenda Commissioner has been branded “disappointing” by MEPs after a confirmation hearing. She also created confusion by appearing to overstep current Commission policy on the digital dividend.

Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is seeking stakeholders' help in drawing up a spectrum release plan.

ITU member countries will approve two revised recommendations dealing with 3G and RLAN networks unless objections arise by April 19, the Radiocommunication Bureau said in a letter circulated to administrations.

UK 2.6 GHz and 800 MHz auctions look likely to be delayed until 2011: meanwhile Kip Meek, appointed to resolve the UK’s refarming impasse, says spectrum is a “policy making…

In a move which has astonished everybody and angered the country’s already frustrated mobile operators, the Indian government has postponed the February 3G auction until the autumn.

While India continues to postpone its 3G auction, the story in neighbouring countries is quite different with several being years ahead and the rest on track for 3G this year.

A leading member of the Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRA) has called for a single body to take responsibility for licensing and monitoring mobile base stations in order to speed up…

Thanks to quick action from regulators and legislators in Middle Eastern countries, Oman Air is about to become the first airline in the world to offer full connectivity on all…

Several countries are developing systems which use airships to provide last mile communications. The next WRC has the task of identifying spectrum for these devices while protecting satellite and radio…

Such is the complexity and political sensitivity of creating the much-touted national broadband plan in the US, that communications regulator the FCC has had to delay delivery of the document.…

Up to a million wireless microphone users have been given until June this year by US regulator the FCC to vacate the 700 MHz Digital Dividend spectrum which is to…